North Korea 'test fires ballistic missile'

South Korean news are reporting the North has test fired a ballistic missile , it's unknown as to the range of the missile but it comes a week after
Defence Secretary James Mattis threatened an overwhelming response if the North were to use a Nuke.

North Korea has fired an unidentified type of ballistic missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports. Pyongyang has conducted a number of
nuclear tests in the past year.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in January that the country was close to testing long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. North
Korea's repeated missile and nuclear tests and aggressive statements continue to alarm and anger the region www.bbc.co.uk...

This is like a toddler with poor motor skills bringing a cap-gun against a dozen or more well-trained professional infantry members with high-caliper
fully automatics and unlimited ammunition.

Is there any reason to believe NK actually has nuclear weapons, or are they just trying to cause a stir to gain attention? What firepower could
they possible have that could actually threaten the outside world before they get completely obliterated?

originally posted by: xuenchen
Only total maniacs launch test missiles that stir up the U.S.

Are they crazy ?

They do it every year around March. Usually not this early though. It's typically seen as yelling they need aid, which they always get, but now they
are pulling it earlier. If conditions in NK are worsening, it's bad news for SK. NK is bat-shoot crazy.

originally posted by: FamCore
This is like a toddler with poor motor skills bringing a cap-gun against a dozen or more well-trained professional infantry members with high-caliper
fully automatics and unlimited ammunition.

Is there any reason to believe NK actually has nuclear weapons, or are they just trying to cause a stir to gain attention? What firepower could
they possible have that could actually threaten the outside world before they get completely obliterated?

Yes they have nuclear weapons. Few people believe they have miniaturized them to the level that would go on to a missile.
Though others say it's possible.

And I don't know where you have your information from but NK could level the # out of South Korea and all the 1,000s and 1,000s of US troops there on
a first strike. They have LOTS of firepower in the form of rocket and artillery strike capabilities.

Is there any reason to believe NK actually has nuclear weapons, or are they just trying to cause a stir to gain attention? What firepower could they
possible have that could actually threaten the outside world before they get completely obliterated?

Yes, we have verified their nuke tests were nukes. Little ones, but is there really such a thing as a little nuke?

They could inflict massive damage on South Korea, and a fair amount on Japan if they decided to. That would happen before a response could happen.
Granted, a missile shot at Japan would have a fair chance of intercept, one shot at South Korea could not.

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